DIY Faux Brass Headboard (+ our LOCAL Magazine Feature!)

07.05.16

I hope everyone had an awesome 4th of July weekend! We wouldn’t be the good DIY’ers that we are if we didn’t welcome you back to the work week without a DIY faux brass headboard, right? We actually made this project for the Home + Design issue of LOCAL magazine this month, and I’m super excited to share our feature with you! If you’re in Houston, be sure to grab a copy!

I’ll share more on that later, but as for the DIY, there are a few different ways you can go about making your own headboard. Because I’m a die-hard Ikea hack fan, we used this plain white bed frame as a blank slate for the metallic gold, but you could use an already existing smooth surface headboard, or even make your own out of MDF, wood, etc…

I’d like to tell you that this is as easy as sticking a giant metallic gold foil sticker on your headboard, and depending on how you look at it, it is. The only downside is that it’s virtually impossible to get rid of the air bubbles underneath foil if you don’t strategically smooth them out little by little as you go.

First we measured out the size of the adhesive vinyl that we needed, leaving a few extra centimeters on every side, then we peeled by the film little by little, and squeegeed out the bubbles as we went.

Once the entire headboard surface was smoothly covered, I flipped the headboard over and used an Xacto knife to clean up the extra that was hanging over the edges to make a perfect fit.

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DIY Faux Brass Headboard (+ our LOCAL Magazine Feature!)

07.05.16

I hope everyone had an awesome 4th of July weekend! We wouldn’t be the good DIY’ers that we are if we didn’t welcome you back to the work week without a DIY faux brass headboard, right? We actually made this project for the Home + Design issue of LOCAL magazine this month, and I’m super excited to share our feature with you! If you’re in Houston, be sure to grab a copy!

I’ll share more on that later, but as for the DIY, there are a few different ways you can go about making your own headboard. Because I’m a die-hard Ikea hack fan, we used this plain white bed frame as a blank slate for the metallic gold, but you could use an already existing smooth surface headboard, or even make your own out of MDF, wood, etc…

I’d like to tell you that this is as easy as sticking a giant metallic gold foil sticker on your headboard, and depending on how you look at it, it is. The only downside is that it’s virtually impossible to get rid of the air bubbles underneath foil if you don’t strategically smooth them out little by little as you go.

First we measured out the size of the adhesive vinyl that we needed, leaving a few extra centimeters on every side, then we peeled by the film little by little, and squeegeed out the bubbles as we went.

Once the entire headboard surface was smoothly covered, I flipped the headboard over and used an Xacto knife to clean up the extra that was hanging over the edges to make a perfect fit.

07.07.16

Mandee

07.20.16

coulD you Also paint A headboard with some kind of metallic spray paint? Im wondering how this adhesive would hold up over time. Does it smuDge easily? If so, how do you clean it up? I TOTALLY love the look of that throw with the air Plants.. This may have inspired me to completely change directions on my room reno!